Not spotted: a hoax!
This is fairly hilarious. Rediff has a silly regular feature where they encourage readers to mail in photographs taken with celebrities. It is, IMO, a fairly idiotic attempt at increasing readership.Today, Rediff posted a photograph of A.R.Rahman posing with "a fan" called "Brian Leno" in Toronto. Alert readers quickly recognised the man in the picture as Mohit Rajhans, a film reviewer with a local TV channel. Anyone with the slightest knowledge of late-night US TV would recognise the purported reader's name as being a mash of Conan O' Brien and Jay Leno (it smelt fishy instantaneously when I saw the name on the main page - I didn't follow the link then, but now it seems so obvious).
The "Spotted!" page is still up there, but I've saved a screenshot just in case. From now on, the only thing Rediff will be sure is genuine is when someone sends in a picture of them next to a leopard and the headline says: "Spotted!"
* Story via the A.R.Rahman fans egroup.
* Previous Rediff rant.
2 comments:
Much like a lame duplication of Gawker's 'Spot a Celebrity' (the one that Clooney ranted about)
Check this new one out: http://www.rediff.com/movies/2007/jan/29spotted.htm
It's almost as if I am back in Desibaba days. Am I the only one, or does it seem like a bad copy-paste job to others as well?
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